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[stefaniab]

Author: Stefania
Title: Where Was Imrahil When Grond Hit the Gate?
Rating: PG
Theme: Adventure
Elements: stonecrop
Author's Notes

Comments

[shirebound]

"I remember who you were, though I was just a boy when I last saw you by my father's side."

"I remember that boy"

What a marvelous gap filler!

[stefaniab]

Thanks, Shirebound. This story is still a bit rough. It took a long time to write because I wanted to put in pirates, and ships, and sea battles, in a Peter Jackson does "Master and Commander" effort. So that meant I had to learn about vessels in use in the Middle Ages. Thank goodness for Wikipedia and all those web search mechanisms.

- Steff

[dreamflower02]

A wonderful and logical addition to the movie! Thanks for putting Imrahil back in!

(And I apologize for approving the wrong story!)

[stefaniab]

Glad that you liked this tale. It's been in my head for close to three years, so I finally got a chance to pull it out.

As far as the empty story is concerned, I had a great deal of trouble using the spelling checker and going back to make corrections. I may have inadvertently clicked post the community during my aborted efforts. So this might be why you got an empty story from me in the queue.

- Steff

[labourslamp]

This was marvelous! Thank you so much; I really missed Imrahil in the movies even though his exclusion is one of the things that makes more sense. And it's good to see some of the mechanics of how Aragorn would have made it up the river with his undead army since the movies glossed that over. Loved Gimli's calling them "scrubbers"!

[stefaniab]

Hee hee. Thanks, Labourslamp.

I struggled forever trying to reconcile the scene in ROTK extended edition where Aragorn, his friends, and the green guys vanquish the pirates with Aragorn's trek through Gondor in the book. Where were they supposed to be for the pirates encounter? At Erech (my eventual choice)? Edelhond? Was this the battle at Pelagir, which Tolkien writes about briefly?

So my version is not exactly canon in its attempt to give movie Aragorn a journey with the army of the dead. The gimic with the green guys pushing the boat explains how Aragorn could have gone the 100 miles of waterways in just a few days. As far as calling the dead scrubbers, that came from reading some fannish comment, where the army of the dead are likened to scrubble bubbles. I used it. I didn't originate it.

- Steff

[nancylea57]

leaves you lots and lots of stories yet to tell in this au. geuss you could be busy for a while. more, please??????????

[blslarner]

Ah--so in this one Imrahil comes after? Good--at least he COMES! And those four craft now are joined by others!